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OFFSHORE MUST BE MORE SEXY It is of decisive importance for Ramboll Oil & Gas to attract highly qualifed employees. For that reason the offshore industry must be seen as an opportunity for an interesting career. Thanks to cooperation with other positive forces this process is heading in the right direction. Hunting down engineers for offshore projects has been gyMetropolis” is pushing things into the right direction, a tough job, and for long periods it has been hard to get even if there is still quite some way till the oil and gas the necessary number of candidates for the booming industry is where it should be. industry. The problem has not only been caused by the number of graduates but also the fact that the Danish A GOOD MIX offshore industry has adhered to the proverb of “he, The result is that Ramboll Oil & Gas still has to fnd part who leads a quiet life, leads a good life”. of its employees abroad, but that is in no way considered “We have to admit, that we have not been good a disadvantage by John Sørensen. enough telling how interesting this industry is. We have “It is still a challenge to recruit personnel from simply been asleep instead of promoting the opportuni- Copenhagen, while it has been easier to get staff from ties. Now we have got a wake-up call, so now we are all other parts of Denmark. Even if most of our employees fully alert,” explains Managing Director of Ramboll Oil are Danes it is also necessary to take a look at the big & Gas, John Sørensen, who believes that now the Danish world around us as that provides for more diversity in offshore branch will do more to promote itself in a much our organisation. We believe in getting a considerable better manner. number of international jobs in the years to come, so we ▲ “This is the story of a branch which has been rather anonymous, but where the agenda has now changed. That goes for all the companies involved – even the largest ones. Much focus has been directed on the town of Esbjerg and its oil & gas industry, and it has turned a bit more sexy to work in the offshore industry, but the volume should be turned up quite a good deal higher as OIL AND GAS WILL there is a long way ahead before we see better times,” states John Sørensen pointing at the difference between PLAY A MAJOR PART Denmark and our brother-country, Norway. “Any Norwegian is fully aware that his country is MANY YEARS AHEAD, making its living from oil, and they are proud of that SO WE SHOULD BE fact. In Denmark we have been creeping along under the carpet being afraid not to talk too loud about our PROUD THAT WE ARE activities, but this vain modesty must be changed. Of course we fully acknowledge our government’s wish to ABLE TO PROVIDE develop a broad mix of energy including wind power and types of other alternative energy, but oil and gas THAT CONTRIBUTION will play a major part many years ahead, so we should TO OUR NATIONAL be proud that we are able to provide that contribution to our national palette of energy,” insists John Sørensen PALETTE OF ENERGY pointing out that the branding of Esbjerg as the “Ener- 39 / OFFSHORE MUST BE MORE SEXY